In “Gloria Christi” we read this statement concerning some early
martyrs of Madagascar:
In 1849 nineteen Christians, four of them from the highest
nobility and all of good birth, were condemned to die.
Fifteen were ordered to be hurled to death over the cliffs of
Ampamarinana, a wall of rock one hundred and fifty feet high,
with a rocky ravine below. The queen looked at the sight from
her palace windows. Idols were placed before the Christians as
they hung suspended by a rope in mid-air over the cliff, and
each was asked in turn, “Will you worship this god?” As they
refused, the rope was cut, and the victim fell into the abyss.
(1935)
=Loyalty to Race=--See RACE LOYALTY.